Are you part of the NICU club? Do you have a child who is still struggling with the effects of being born too soon from preeclampsia? Share your concerns and stories here among parents who have been there.

My grandma (born in rural Alberta, Canada) was only about 3 lbs. at birth (or so she says...). They didn't even call for the doctor because they figured she was just going to die. She said that they wrapped her up, put her in a small box (like a shoe box size), and put her by the wood burning stove. My great-grandpa would periodically pick her up, flip her over and smack her repeatedly on the back. She told me (in all seriousness) to do this with Maggie in the NICU, but somehow I think that the nurses wouldn't have approved...[:D]

My husband's Auntie Peg (probably getting close to 70 at this stage) was about 2 lb when she was born. According to my FIL they wrapped her in lambswool and rubbed her skin with olive oil!! No hospital, rural Ireland. Amazing!

When Mason was born, there was a woman at my hospital who had been in a car accident several years prior and had the seat belt go through her abdomen. The hospital had to reconstruct it for her and fast forward to when she got pregnant, they had to set up some special net type thing to allow her stomach to expand etc..

They ended up tkaing the baby fairly early (before 32 weeks) because they could do nothing else to allow the baby room to grow.

Just goes to show not matter the odds against you, good things do happen!

Erin

Moderator - First Time Moms, Parents of Preemies
Interm Chapter President - St. Louis/Missouri
Mommy to Alex and Mason